Corn-husking glove



(No Model) L. H. P. NORTHRUP. CORN HUSKING GLGVE.

No. 583,310. Patented May 25,1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

LESTER I-I. P. NORTHRUP, OF MOBERLY, MISSOURI.

CORN-HUSKING GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 583,310, dated May 25, 1897. Application filed December 27,1895. Renewed October 17, 1896. SerialNo. 609,252. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, LESTER H. P. NORTH- RUP, of the city of Moberly, Randolph county, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements iu Corn-I-Iusking Gloves, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to an improved husking-glove; and it consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the palm side of a husking-glove constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of one of the metallic toothed sections I use in my improved glove. Fig. 3 is a View in perspective of the huskingpin that is located upon the bottom of the glove. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail sectional view taken approximately on the indicated line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail sectional view taken approximately on the indicated line 5 5 of Fig. l.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings, 1 indicates the glove, which is of common construction, and extending transversely upon the palm side thereof at approximately the point where the fingers of said glove join the palm is the husking-pin 2. This husking-pin comprises a V-shaped bar 3, the same terminating in a pointed blade 4, the same being slightly concavo-convex and curving upwardly at its end. The edges of the V-shaped bar are serrated, as indicated by 5, and the pin so constructed is fixed to the glove by means of rivets 6, one passing through the rear end of the pin and through the material of the glove at a point adjacent the base of the little finger, another rivet passing through the blade 4 and through the material of the glove at a point adjacent the base of the index-finger.

7 7 indicate the toothed metallic sections,`

the same being located at various points upon the palm of the glove and the fingers and thumb thereof. These sections are constructed of metallic channel-bars, the laterally-bent ends of which are serrated, as indicated by 8, and said sections are made of various lengths.

Each of said sections is provided with one or more apertures 9, the same being for the reception of rivets or analogous fastening devices that pass through the material of which the glove is constructed and very securely fix said sections to said glove.

10 indicates a circular plate the edge of which is bent up and serrated, as indicated by 11, and said circular plate is secured by means of rivets 12 to the inside of the thumb of the glove in such a manner as that when the hand of the wearer of the glove is closed upon an ear of corn the teeth of said plate will readily engage with the husks of said ear of corn.

The use of a glove constructed in accordance with the foregoing description is obvious, it being apparent that when the glove is located upon the hand the toothed sections will readily engage with the husk of the ear of corn and greatly assist the bushing-pin in separating the husks from the ear. The husking-pin, being of V shape in cross-section, readily allows the hand to close in a natural manner and not to be interfered with in its work by any broad and unyielding surface upon the palm or fingers.

A glove so constructed is simple, durable, inexpensive, and very efcient in use.

Where the gloves are constructed in pairs, it is of course unnecessary for the huskingpin to be located on the left-hand glove.

I claim- 1. A' husking-glove having series of sections of channel-bar, the same having serrated edges, located upon its palm and fingers, and a husking-pin V-shaped in crosssection and having serrated edges and a pointed blade.

2. A husking-glove, comprising a glove, a series of sections of serrated-edged channelbars located upon the palm and lingers of said glove, a bushing-pin fixed to and extending transversely upon the palm side of the glove, said husking-pin being V-shaped in cross-section and having serrated edges and an atten uated point, and a circular plate located upon the thumb of the glove, the edge of which plate is bent upwardly and serrated.

3. In combination with a glove, a series of sections of channel-bars 7 located upon the IOO palm side and lingers of said glove, the edges glove, its edges boing turned upwardly and Io of said sections being serrated, a liuskingserrated'.

pin 2 extending transversely on 'the palm side ln testimony whereof I allix my signature 0f the glove at a point approximately where in presence of two Witnesses.

the fingers join the palm, a pointed blade 4 l i y formed integral with the end of said liu sking- LESTER u' P NORTHRUP pin, said huskingpin being V-shaped in erosslVitnesses:

section and its edges serrated, and a plate l0 E. E. LONGAN, located upon the inside of the thumb of the JOHN C. l-IIGDON. 

